76 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



3. Testudo POLYPHEMUS Daudin. 



Really confined to Florida, but recorded by Gray from Cuba (Ann. mag. 

 nat. hist. 1840, 5, p. 115). 



4. CiNOSTERNON BAURi Garmau. 



A Floridian tortoise; one of the types was said to have been sent to the 

 M. C. Z. by Filipe Poey, from Cuba. Either Professor Poey obtained the 

 specimen from Florida and neglected to mention the fact, or an incorrect label 

 was substituted for the original after it was received at the Museum. There 

 is an example of Gerrhonotus in the U. S. N. M. which has suffered exactly the 

 same vicissitudes, bearing now a Poey label. 



5. Natrix anoscopa (Cope). 



This was probably based on a specimen from the southern United States, 

 although Stejneger thinks Cope may have had an African form. The evidence 

 that Gundlach ever found a Natrix in Cuba is extremely unconvincing, since 

 none has been found there by any other collector. It is quite probable that 

 his Tropidonotus cubanus (Erp. Cubana, 1880, p. 81) was really based on an 

 anomalous example of the "catibo" {Tretanorhinus variabilis). There is no 

 specimen of Natrix (Tropidonotus and.) in the Museo Gundlach of the Insti- 

 tute de Segunda Ensenanza in Havana. (See Postscript, p. 212). 



6. Leimadophis parvifrons (Cope). 



Under the name of (Liophis) parvifrons Meerwarth records (Mitth. Natur. 

 mus. Hamb., 1901, 18, p. 15), a specimen of this Haitian species from Cuba. 

 The specimen apparently entirely lacks definite data. That this record should 

 not be queried by Meerwarth will hardly surprise one who consults this paper, 

 for on page 9 it is stated that the Hamburg museum possesses Constrictor 

 (called Boa) imperator from St. Thomas! 



7. Dromicus temporalis Cope. 



This species and a so-called Scoliophis fumiceps were described from speci- 

 mens said to have been in the M. C. Z. The type of the latter cannot be found 



